If you’re stuck in a system that only gives you the options of 50 death camps or 51 and you don’t work towards building an alternative system. Then you’re just evil lite.
There are absolutely lots of people advocating refusing to vote. You can argue that OP isn’t one of those people, but there are entire instances filled with people saying exactly that.
There are, but they have a very specific reason. And that reason is to discipline the party. That theory of action is pretty solid, but it’s not what is being said here what’s being said is that voting is impotent. You can vote all you want. You’re pissing in the wind.
Nah, that theory of action is dogshit. A smattering of indignant leftists isn’t going to discipline the party. Especially when the mechanism of action is… not doing something. That course of action is, in a disciplinary sense, indistinguishable from just being lazy or apathetic. It’s not praxis, and it doesn’t encourage praxis. 0/5 stars, terrible political action.
Voting isn’t impotent. It’s very weak, but it isn’t impotent. It nudges things slightly, which isn’t nothing.
It clearly doesn’t, as the Overton window has been sliding right for decades.
As for disciplining the party, you clearly think that if the Republicans lost they would be moved. Why do you think that if the Democrats win on a right-wing platform they’ll be nudged to the left instead of learning the lesson that they win more if they slide to the right?
You could not be more wrong. Factually, morally, tactically, strategically, you are wrong along every axis in every dimension of existence.
We can work together by standing together and voting our common interests or we can lose the country.
We should be supporting primary challengers for every Republican. Those moderate, DNC types? We should fund one in every goddamn red district in America.
There are more of us than there are of them. Instead of bitching about voting not mattering, make it fucking matter. Take over the Republican Party. Your local party has a couple thousand voters behind them. That’s it. You can’t find a couple thousand neighbors who think corruption is bad and kid-fucking is deplorable?
TRY HARDER FOR FUCK’S SAKE. STOP WHINING AND START WINNING.
Oh man if only we got organized and raised a ton of money and got a whole bunch of people connected via a whole communication and logistics and education capability suite. We could even celebrate together when we did it. We could throw a party. Hey. That’s what we’ll call it, we’ll call it a party.
And since it’s about voting, and saving democracy, we can call it, The Democratic Party!
This is great. It obviously won’t happen overnight, but if we organize our new party, The Democratic Party, we could take that strategy you have and start winning. The leaders of the party will need to be people who understand this, but I mean, of course they would understand it, who wouldn’t understand that we have to save democracy or lose it, and that it’s not hard we just need to get a few thousand people in each district to overwhelm our opponents with votes.
No, this is great. I love this idea. Let’s build…
Wait, there’s already something called The Democratic Party? They already oppose the fascist Republicans? They already have a huge operation that’s been around for a century? And they have a shit ton of money flowing into them constantly?
So then What the fuck is going on? Why are we in this situation? Are they just that bad at their jobs? Well then we should stop putting our effort behind them and start a new party! Wait, what? That just means the fascists will win? But you just said the Democrats have been around this whole time and the fascists are winning… Oh it’s our fault for not voting correctly?
Republicans bought the airwaves. First they bought AM radio. Then local FM radio. Then local TV news. Then Fox News. Then they bought CNN, CBS etc. They bought all the social media companies. The Fascist Party literally controls all the information for more than half of the country.
That’s how they “win.”
Has fuckall to do with what the Democratic Party does or does not do.
And you’d already know that if you weren’t just an asshole supporting the far-right while pretending to be a leftist rebel.
There are people in this very thread, and other parts of the fediverse, who are only here to attack those that point out it’s not okay while they actively pretend it’s okay.
Idk, if given the choice between 50 death camps or 51 death camps, it would be pretty fucked up to choose 51.
If you’re stuck in a system that only gives you the options of 50 death camps or 51 and you don’t work towards building an alternative system. Then you’re just evil lite.
Precisely. That’s why you need to think more broadly. So you don’t become evil and pretend it’s OK.
Nobody is pretending it is okay.
But pretending like refusing to vote is morally superior than actively preventing the extra death camp is not.
No one is advocating refusing to vote. The post is explicitly stating that voting isn’t helping. It’s time to try something new
There are absolutely lots of people advocating refusing to vote. You can argue that OP isn’t one of those people, but there are entire instances filled with people saying exactly that.
There are, but they have a very specific reason. And that reason is to discipline the party. That theory of action is pretty solid, but it’s not what is being said here what’s being said is that voting is impotent. You can vote all you want. You’re pissing in the wind.
Nah, that theory of action is dogshit. A smattering of indignant leftists isn’t going to discipline the party. Especially when the mechanism of action is… not doing something. That course of action is, in a disciplinary sense, indistinguishable from just being lazy or apathetic. It’s not praxis, and it doesn’t encourage praxis. 0/5 stars, terrible political action.
Voting isn’t impotent. It’s very weak, but it isn’t impotent. It nudges things slightly, which isn’t nothing.
It clearly doesn’t, as the Overton window has been sliding right for decades.
As for disciplining the party, you clearly think that if the Republicans lost they would be moved. Why do you think that if the Democrats win on a right-wing platform they’ll be nudged to the left instead of learning the lesson that they win more if they slide to the right?
Yes, sliding, as opposed to speeding. That is something.
Where did you get that idea? I’m just saying your strategy doesn’t work.
You could not be more wrong. Factually, morally, tactically, strategically, you are wrong along every axis in every dimension of existence.
We can work together by standing together and voting our common interests or we can lose the country.
We should be supporting primary challengers for every Republican. Those moderate, DNC types? We should fund one in every goddamn red district in America.
There are more of us than there are of them. Instead of bitching about voting not mattering, make it fucking matter. Take over the Republican Party. Your local party has a couple thousand voters behind them. That’s it. You can’t find a couple thousand neighbors who think corruption is bad and kid-fucking is deplorable?
TRY HARDER FOR FUCK’S SAKE. STOP WHINING AND START WINNING.
Oh man if only we got organized and raised a ton of money and got a whole bunch of people connected via a whole communication and logistics and education capability suite. We could even celebrate together when we did it. We could throw a party. Hey. That’s what we’ll call it, we’ll call it a party.
And since it’s about voting, and saving democracy, we can call it, The Democratic Party!
This is great. It obviously won’t happen overnight, but if we organize our new party, The Democratic Party, we could take that strategy you have and start winning. The leaders of the party will need to be people who understand this, but I mean, of course they would understand it, who wouldn’t understand that we have to save democracy or lose it, and that it’s not hard we just need to get a few thousand people in each district to overwhelm our opponents with votes.
No, this is great. I love this idea. Let’s build…
Wait, there’s already something called The Democratic Party? They already oppose the fascist Republicans? They already have a huge operation that’s been around for a century? And they have a shit ton of money flowing into them constantly?
So then What the fuck is going on? Why are we in this situation? Are they just that bad at their jobs? Well then we should stop putting our effort behind them and start a new party! Wait, what? That just means the fascists will win? But you just said the Democrats have been around this whole time and the fascists are winning… Oh it’s our fault for not voting correctly?
PROPAGANDA is what happened, you dumb fuck.
Republicans bought the airwaves. First they bought AM radio. Then local FM radio. Then local TV news. Then Fox News. Then they bought CNN, CBS etc. They bought all the social media companies. The Fascist Party literally controls all the information for more than half of the country.
That’s how they “win.”
Has fuckall to do with what the Democratic Party does or does not do.
And you’d already know that if you weren’t just an asshole supporting the far-right while pretending to be a leftist rebel.
There are people in this very thread, and other parts of the fediverse, who are only here to attack those that point out it’s not okay while they actively pretend it’s okay.